Feminine dossier · first seen 1944

Carlye

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Carlye
Creator: Social Security Administration

Stable Decline Gradual decline from 1996

Peak era

1996

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Below reporting floor

Generation

Millennial

1944Peak 19962024

Peak year

1996

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,066

Carlye is past its period of maximum cultural dominance, but it has not disappeared. Unlike names that burn out quickly, it still carries enough usage to remain cross-generational rather than purely nostalgic.

Your name peaked in 1996, when 52 girls were named Carlye.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,066 Americans have been named Carlye and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1944.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryGradual decline from 1996

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